JONES
,
DAVID
(
1803
-
1868
),
ballad-writer and strolling ballad-singer
;
b. in
1803
on the estate of
Dolau Bach
,
Llanybyther, Carms.
, son of
DavidJones
,
carpenter
. He was
blinded
by accident, and was hence known as ‘
Dewi Dywyll
’ (‘
Blind Davy
’) — he was also called ‘
Dewi Medi
.’ He was a very well known
singer
throughout
Wales
, and is described in
Cymru (O.M.E.)
, xxix, 158. He d. at
Lampeter
in
1868
. We have seventy of his ballads.